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  17 <h1>psensor</h1>
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  21 <h2 id="_a_graphical_temperature_monitoring_application">A Graphical Temperature Monitoring Application</h2>
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  23 <div class="paragraph">
  24 <p>Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.</p>
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  26 <div class="paragraph">
  27 <p>It can monitor:</p>
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  30 <ul>
  31 <li>
  32 <p>the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using <a href="http://www.lm-sensors.org/">lm-sensors</a>).</p>
  33 </li>
  34 <li>
  35 <p>the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).</p>
  36 </li>
  37 <li>
  38 <p>the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs (not enabled in Ubuntu PPAs or official
  39 distribution repositories, see the <a href="README.html#_ati_amd_gpu_support">instructions for enabling its support</a>).</p>
  40 </li>
  41 <li>
  42 <p>the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).</p>
  43 </li>
  44 <li>
  45 <p>the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).</p>
  46 </li>
  47 <li>
  48 <p>the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2).</p>
  49 </li>
  50 </ul>
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  54 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-last.png" alt="psensor last">
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  59 <img src="http://wpitchoune.net/psensor/screenshots/psensor-2011-06-16.png" alt="psensor 2011 06 16">
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  63 <p>The application is designed to be simple and easy to use. The CPU and memory consumption are not significant.</p>
  64 </div>
  65 <div class="paragraph">
  66 <p>Psensor is released under GPLv2 license terms.</p>
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  71 <h2 id="_usage_information">Usage Information</h2>
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  73 <div class="paragraph">
  74 <p>First step is to install <code>lm-sensors</code>.</p>
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  76 <div class="paragraph">
  77 <p>For Ubuntu:</p>
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  81 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo apt-get install lm-sensors</code></pre>
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  83 </div>
  84 <div class="paragraph">
  85 <p>Then, starts the detection of your hardware sensors:</p>
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  89 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sudo sensors-detect</code></pre>
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  91 </div>
  92 <div class="paragraph">
  93 <p>Verify that it works:</p>
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  96 <div class="content">
  97 <pre class="highlight"><code class="language-script" data-lang="script">sensors</code></pre>
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 100 <div class="paragraph">
 101 <p>It should display something like:</p>
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 105 <pre>coretemp-isa-0000
 106 Adapter: ISA adapter
 107 Core 0:      +46.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
 108
 109 coretemp-isa-0001
 110 Adapter: ISA adapter
 111 Core 1:      +44.0C  (high = +76.0C, crit = +100.0C)
 112
 113 ...</pre>
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 117 <p>Then you can proceed to the installation of <code>psensor</code>. For Ubuntu and derivatives,
 118  you should look at the <a href="ubuntu.html">Ubuntu support page</a>.</p>
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 121 <p>And finally launch the <code>psensor</code> executable.</p>
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 124 <p>More information are available in the <a href="faq.html">Psensor FAQ</a>.</p>
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 129 <h2 id="_source_code">Source Code</h2>
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 132 <ul>
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 134 <p><a href="files">Download psensor</a></p>
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 136 <li>
 137 <p>Get source from the GIT repository:</p>
 138 </li>
 139 </ul>
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 142 <div class="content">
 143 <pre>git clone http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git</pre>
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 147 <ul>
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 149 <p><a href="http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb?p=psensor.git">Browse source code</a></p>
 150 </li>
 151 </ul>
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 156 <h2 id="_linux_distribution_support">Linux Distribution Support</h2>
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 158 <div class="paragraph">
 159 <p><code>psensor</code> should compile on any modern distribution including <code>GTK+`</code> v3 and
 160 <code>lm-sensors</code> which are quite common. For Linux Distribution still stuck on
 161  <code>GTK+</code> v2, the old 0.6.x releases of <code>psensor</code> can be used.</p>
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 163 <div class="paragraph">
 164 <p>If you have trouble compiling <code>psensor</code> on a specific Linux distribution,
 165 don’t hesitate to report it.</p>
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 167 <div class="paragraph">
 168 <p>Binary packages of <code>psensor</code> are available for few Linux distributions:</p>
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 171 <ul>
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 173 <p>package for Ubuntu is in the official universe repository since version 11.10 (Oneiric)</p>
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 175 <li>
 176 <p><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/psensor.html">package for Debian</a> is in the standard repository since 7.0</p>
 177 </li>
 178 <li>
 179 <p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~jfi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa">PPA for Ubuntu</a></p>
 180 </li>
 181 <li>
 182 <p><a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/psensor">package for OpenSuse</a></p>
 183 </li>
 184 <li>
 185 <p><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psensor/">package for ArchLinux</a>.</p>
 186 </li>
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 192 <h2 id="_contact">Contact</h2>
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 194 <div class="paragraph">
 195 <p>The Google Group <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&amp;hl=en#!forum/psensor-users">psensor-users</a> can be used for discussion, questions and bug report.</p>
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 197 <div class="paragraph">
 198 <p>For announces or general information subscribe to Psensor <a href="https://plus.google.com/100166747457211594542">Google+ page</a>.</p>
 199 </div>
 200 <div class="paragraph">
 201 <p>Alternatively, you can contact me by e-mail: <a href="mailto:jeanfi@gmail.com">jeanfi@gmail.com</a>.</p>
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